{"product_id":"figure-studies-9780807133613","title":"Figure Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoet Claudia Emerson begins \u003ci\u003eFigure Studies\u003c\/i\u003e with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called All Girls School, offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they collectively school -- or refuse to -- the poems explore ways girls are trained in the broadest sense of the word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGossips, the second section, is a shorter sequence narrated by women as they talk about other women in a variety of isolations; these poems, told from the outside looking in, highlight a speculative voicing of all the gossip cannot know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Early Lessons, the third section, children narrate as they also observe similarly solitary women, the children's innocence allowing them to see in farther than the gossip can. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fourth section offers studies of women and men in situations in which gender, with all of its complexities, figures powerfully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection \u003ci\u003eLate Wife, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFigure Studies\u003c\/i\u003e upholds Emerson's place among contemporary poetry's elite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mannequin above Main Street Motors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the only ladies' dress shop closed, she was left on the street for trash, unsalvageable,  one arm missing, lost at the shoulder, one leg at the hip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut she was wearing a blue-sequined negligee and blonde wig, so they helped themselves to her on a lark -- drunken impulse -- and for years kept her leaning in a corner, beside an attic window, rendered invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dusk was also perpetual in the garage below, punctuated only by bare bulbs hung close over the engines. Oily grime coated the walls, and a decade of calendars promoted \u003cbr\u003estock-car drivers, women in dated swimsuits, and even their bodies out of fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRadio distorted there; cigarette smoke moaned, the pedal steel conceding to that place a greater, echoing sorrow. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, lame, forgotten prank, she remained, back turned forever to the dark storage\u003cbr\u003ebehind her, gaze leveled just above anyone's who could have looked up \u003cbr\u003eto mistake in the cast of her face fresh longing -- her expression still reluctant figure for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Emerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 6.32w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807133613\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClaudia Emerson is also the author of Late Wife, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize, and Pharaoh, Pharaoh. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals. The recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, she holds the Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40239061303411,"sku":"0807133612","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c641c0d4-d1e4-43aa-962f-d8f833d47249.jpg?v=1657113812","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/figure-studies-9780807133613","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}